Tommy Flowers
(1905-1998)
Died aged c. 93
Wikidata WikipediaThomas Harold Flowers, BSc, DSc, MBE (22 December 1905 – 28 October 1998) was an English engineer with the British General Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages.
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designer of Colossus
Commemorated on 2 plaques
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IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing Code-breaking at Bletchley Park during World War II, 1939-45. On this site during the 1939-45 World War, 12,000 men and women broke the German Lorenz and Enigma ciphers, as well as Japanese and Italian codes and ciphers. They used innovative mathematical analysis and were assisted by two computing machines developed here by teams led by Alan Turing: the electro-mathematical Bombe developed with Gordon Welchman, and the electronic Colossus designed by Tommy Flowers. These achievements greatly shortened the war, thereby saving countless lives.
Bletchley Park House, Bletchley Park, Bletchley, United Kingdom where they worked (1939-1945)
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The former Post Office Research Station where Tommy Flowers (1905–1998) designed and built the pioneering Colossus computer
Chartwell Court, 151 Brook Road, Dollis Hill, London, United Kingdom where they was